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Articles: Michael Colby

In the movie “Other People’s Money”, Danny DeVito’s character declares: “You know, at one time there must’ve been dozens of companies makin’ buggy whips. And I’ll bet the last company around was the one that made the best damn buggy whip you ever saw.” Once the de facto standard for backup storage, Purpose Built Backup…

George Crump of Storage Swiss recently published a positive review of our recently announced RecoverX 2.5 release. He highlighted the challenges of protecting applications running on clustered, “eventually consistent” databases like MongoDB and Cassandra. Because no one node always has the latest copy of data the only native way to capture a consistent point in…

In our recent RecoverX 2.5 launch, we introduced a host of exciting new capabilities designed specifically for MongoDB including Data Center Aware Backup for MongoDB. Data Center Aware Backup enables backing up geo-distributed MongoDB sharded database clusters at any of the geo-distributed sites and restoring at any of the sites. RecoverX can backup an entire…

Modern applications built on non-relational databases like Cassandra and MongoDB and Big Data filesystems like Cloudera and HortonWorks are here to stay, increasing in popularity and rate of adoption (running in the cloud or on-premises) within enterprises everywhere. In response, traditional backup vendors, including Commvault, are rushing to market with solutions that purport to provide…

As enterprise customers across industry verticals accelerate their digital transformation journeys, they are aggressively developing new modern customer-centric applications and deploying these on next generation distributed data platforms such as MongoDB, DataStax, Cassandra, Couchbase, Apache Hadoop, Amazon DynamoDB, Google BigTable. As a result, , security is becoming an increasing concern. There have been several large…

To keep up with business demands and to innovate with customer-centric applications, IT teams are always looking for modern tools that provide increased developer agility, and increased productivity of DBA and infrastructure teams — all while maintaining highest order of data recoverability. From the first day of Datos IO and with the release of RecoverX…

One of the biggest requirements for businesses is to provide always-on, 100% available customer-centric experience. May that be for your favorite eCommerce platforms/websites, banking platforms, retail platforms, social media platforms, or even product development / content management applications. As a result, the challenge for IT organizations to be able to meet this always-on business requirement…

With rapid market adoption of modern applications built on next generation scale out, distributed NoSQL and big data data platforms traditional backup vendors are increasingly focused on these new workloads – at least from a messaging and roadmap standpoint. While traditional vendors help increase customer awareness of the critical need for backup of modern data…

One of the truths of all technologies is: what was once the best solution for a then current need eventually becomes an obsolete legacy. Media server based legacy backup architecture has no place in the cloud. Likewise legacy media server based architectures have no place protecting next generation scale-out data. Legacy backup solutions from…